...vations I dismounted at last at a hotel, but here I was little better off. It was like jumping into the mill-pond to get out of the rain.
The proprietor of the establishment being a German, many of Germania 's sons were there assembled, immersed in beer and smoking like so many furnaces.
I am quite sure that most of them were very decided Yankee sympathisers, but as a grey uniform was right among them,...